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Investigation into the effect of homophone training on reaction times for a forced choice lexical decision task Abstract The study investigated the effect of training with homophones on the pseudohomophone effect when participants were required to search their lexicon for a familiar letter string, this also investigated the ideas put forward by the dual route model where orthographic and phonological processes are both used in the analysis of word strings. The design of the experiment was a between subjects forced choice lexical decision task, where participants were shown two word strings simultaneously and asked to respond as to which was a correct word. Participants were students from the University of Nottingham split into two different groups that were subject too different training conditions. Stimuli were four letter single syllabale word strings including homophones, regular words, non word strings, and pseudohomophones as used in previous research by Underwood (1988). The results obtained did...

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